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Preach-in asks: Spend Valentine's Day loving creation
… “Go for a walk in the woods and see the wonder that is outside of the stores. Plant a tree, pick up trash on the beach, make a commitment to no longer use plastic bottles, screw in a … toxic waste dumps; partnering with a parish from the developing world by planting carbon sink trees to absorb carbon dioxide growing organic gardens on church grounds banning plastic cups …
With book on God and Darwin, Elizabeth Johnson gets her voice back
… is natural is not 'of God' in the same way the supernatural is." … 'Breaking twigs off of the tree of life' … Unfortunately, God's great work in creation now finds itself radically challenged … and currently, 350 species are going extinct every day. "We are breaking twigs off of the tree of life," she says. "We are cutting off the promise that they hold within themselves that …
Ohio's botched execution increases resolve to save David Hammer
… D'Arienzo … Jan. 17 dawned dull and gray. Strewn at curbside were the last of Christmas trees destined to be mulched; the cheerful lights they used to wear were packed away and the …
While new coconut trees mature, Filipinos learn to farm other crops
… that Donabel Castillon could recognize of the land she farms with her family. The coconut trees were tall matchsticks with few, if any, branches left. Her small vegetable and rice fields … that CRS pays each farmer about $80 to prepare the same fields they lease where their coconut trees grow to produce other vegetables for up to 10 years. That's long enough for new trees to mature and begin producing the high-quality crop demanded by processors of …
Christian stewardship group seeks to blow top off mountaintop removal
… journey, with only two llamas for company, Illyn “witnessed hillsides shorn of their trees and logging towns fighting for permission to remove the last stands of old-growth forest -- …
Pope Francis & Notre Dame
… of Pope Paul VI's trip there and his seminal meeting with Patriarch Athenagoras. Among the trees that have grown from the seeds sown that day is Notre Dame's Tantur Ecumenical Institute, …
The weakened Obama presidency
… speech was filled with "old chestnuts," the GOP responses were a forest of chestnut trees. President Obama may still inspire the Democratic base. He did nothing to really persuade …
'Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical'
… the kitchen and say good morning to the white Buddha who sits in our backyard under a cherry tree, its bare branches decorated with red and silver Christmas ornaments. Vickie sips a … O come, all ye faithful ... Silent night ..." Vickie sings and glows like an angel on top of a tree. Lyndsay De Matteo, a program coordinator, conducts the Bell Girls. Each woman holds a bell … aides wind their way around the rows of men and women like tinsel around the aging limbs of a tree, giving each person cake, juice and a stocking with candy canes. I know that none of this is …
Green burials reflect a shift to care for the body and soul
… he died last September, his Christian family placed his body in a casket carved from a fallen tree by his son and interred it in the woods at Green Acres Cemetery near Columbia, Mo. It just …
Indigenous peoples work to save land from extinction
… of police blocked them. “We yelled, saying we know what the rainforest is, the medicines, the trees, the fruits. It’s sacred. We know what’s happened in other places. Indigenous are dying. …